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I have this article that's like 300 words. It is stored in a table in database mysql. I need to display only a few words from this article in the front page then print "read full article"

is there a specific function in PHP that allows me to give it the string variable (the whole article after it's been queried from the db) , and... the number of spaces to count before stopping so that I can tell it something like: